I worked Omnipage on it. There's something like 150 pages. From the applications key menu, I converted it to Word. ----- Original Message ----- From: Farfar Carlson To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:25 AM Subject: Re: Here is the PDF file I'm talking about! Openbook from Freedom Scientific will work on these, as well as those already printed out on paper. I've also seen others recommending Omnipage. You are basically needing an optical character recognition application that can process your image files as though you're sending them to a printer. Dave Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California ----- Original Message ----- From: Brandon Keith To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 07:52 Subject: Re: Here is the PDF file I'm talking about! Thank you, Are there any good programs that do the character recognition that are accessible? I get documents like this all the time either for school or work and I need to know what they are saying in a matter of hours. I have to then drop everything I'm doing and go find a sighted person who can read this document to me, then type it out by hand as they read it to me. It is very frustrating and sighted people can't tell the difference between this PDF document and normal text PDFs. Thank you, Brandon Keith Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith From: GlenJan Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 12:10 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Here is the PDF file I'm talking about! Hello Dave, Thanks for that info; I was aware of this but was trying to make the point - badly - that calling a document a PDF file does not necessarily make it accessible. Glen On 14-Oct-2010 17:58, Farfar Carlson wrote: Glen, PDF files are often created as each page being an image of something. This usually happens when a PDF file is created from a scanner. So it's okay that it's PDF. Dave Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California ----- Original Message ----- From: GlenJan To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 23:45 Subject: Re: Here is the PDF file I'm talking about! Brandon, This is nothing more than a series of pictures, one picture per page which has been saved with a PDF file extension. No idea why this one has been saved with a PDF file extension, but it's still a picture and therefore should have a file extension of .jpg. To make it accessible to a screen reader, you would need to use Optical Character Recognition to turn it into text. HTH. Glen On 14-Oct-2010 16:06, Brandon Keith wrote: Here, I forgot to attach it on the last email! Thank you, Brandon Keith Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith